The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
CLARENCE DARROWCan any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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The law is a horrible business.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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